SCYE – “Paru-Paro”
Bulacan-based rapper SCYE returns with a new song, driven by lush strings and soaring instrumentals. It centers on the importance of tackling mental health and depression with an open mind.
“The intention of ‘Paru-Paro’ is to connect with people who are struggling with the traumas they’ve been going through since childhood that cause them to drown in depression, panic attacks, anxiety and suicidal attempts,” SCYE said.
“My song also aims to remind their relatives and friends to give at least a little time to talk to them and listen to their struggles about their mental health issues.”
At the same time, the track seeks to give those who make fun of mentally challenged individuals, a sense of perspective in debunking the stigma, with the hope of normalizing conversations about mental health issues.
CLARA BENIN – “Suara Hati”
Originally released in Pilipino as “Tila,” the folk-pop tune has been re-recorded in Bahasa Indonesia as part of OFFMUTE record label’s efforts to empower emerging acts across and beyond the region. With “Suara Hati,” listeners can imagine love is everywhere; within us and all around us.
“It was really important for me to make this song sound authentic and true to its language,” Benin shared in a statement. “My producer, The Ringmaster, made that easy for me because he actually grew up in Indonesia and speaks Bahasa fluently. Berto Pah, who is an Indonesian Sasando player, also helped in making the song sound authentic.”
WE GOT – “Panahon”
Directed by Shai Advincula, the video counterpart of a pretty straightforward raggaefied love song situates its story in the time of pandemic, where a woman in isolation found unexpected companionship in the unlikeliest of circumstances.
Advincula explained, “Over the past year, our lives have shifted by being stuck at home most of the time. There are a lot of things that we’re missing from our pre-pandemic life, one of which is the affection we get from a companion. But how do we cater to our need for affection in a socially distanced world? The music video shows a bizarre but refreshing take on coping.”
ITCHYWORMS – “The Life I Know”
The track is a piano-backed ballad off the band’s fifth studio album, Waiting For The End To Start. Its music video follows the story of Awit, a toddler who’s beginning to understand her place. Tension arises when an incoming new sibling threatens to take what was once Awit’s own comfort space.
Director of animation Cami Kwan takes pride in documenting how a child starts to lose the world she’s known to navigate a new realm that is both uncomfortable and terrifying. She said, “There is a beauty and awe in embracing a wider world, of seeing beyond yourself, but there is an inherent loss in that as well, and we wanted to explore that sense of melancholy as well as that sense of power and joy.”
TOM MORELLO – Driving To Texas
Co-founder of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave and Prophets of Rage, Tom Morello released a new single off his forthcoming album The Atlas Underground Fire. In partnership with electronic rock duo Phantogram, his latest song’s slow macabre ambience twists his blazing guitar work with the bands he’s been with before and the politics of his most famous collaboration with RATM’s Zack de la Rocha.
Morello described his new project thus: “I’d worked with Josh from Phantogram on my first Atlas Underground album and I was thrilled when he and Sarah reached out about collaborating on this record. This song is creepy as hell –a dark journey, a struggle for a tortured soul. The guitar solo needed to feel like a vengeful angel and on this record. Sarah has one of the most haunting and beautiful voices of anyone singing today, while Josh’s production is stylistically so fresh and eerie.”
ELTON JOHN and DUA LIPA – “Cold Heart” (Remix)
A joyous and blissful dance cut, ‘Cold Heart’ is at once instantly recognizable and yet thoroughly contemporary – a modern dance floor filler based on four of Elton’s classic tracks expertly spliced together by Australian electronic band and producers PNAU.
Elton John said: “The last 18 months have been hard, but being off the road has meant that I’ve actually had time to collaborate with some wonderful artists. And having the opportunity to spend time with Dua, albeit remotely has been incredible. She’s a truly wonderful artist, and the energy she brought to ‘Cold Heart’ just blew my mind.”
PNAU added, “Setting a stage for the two greatest performers in the world today Sir Elton John and Dua Lipa, we knew we had to go in deep, take them into our world, the psychedelic laser black lit club. Where all of us can meet on the dance floor, forget the outside and lose ourselves in the healing waters of music and love eternal.”
PNAU is the multi-platinum-selling electronic act of Nick Littlemore (Empire of the Sun, Vlossom, Teenager), Peter Mayes and Sam Littlemore.
COOL SINGLES
And the stories behind them
SCYE – “Paru-Paro”
Bulacan-based rapper SCYE returns with a new song, driven by lush strings and soaring instrumentals. It centers on the importance of tackling mental health and depression with an open mind.
“The intention of ‘Paru-Paro’ is to connect with people who are struggling with the traumas they’ve been going through since childhood that cause them to drown in depression, panic attacks, anxiety and suicidal attempts,” SCYE said.
“My song also aims to remind their relatives and friends to give at least a little time to talk to them and listen to their struggles about their mental health issues.”
At the same time, the track seeks to give those who make fun of mentally challenged individuals, a sense of perspective in debunking the stigma, with the hope of normalizing conversations about mental health issues.
CLARA BENIN – “Suara Hati”
Originally released in Pilipino as “Tila,” the folk-pop tune has been re-recorded in Bahasa Indonesia as part of OFFMUTE record label’s efforts to empower emerging acts across and beyond the region. With “Suara Hati,” listeners can imagine love is everywhere; within us and all around us.
“It was really important for me to make this song sound authentic and true to its language,” Benin shared in a statement. “My producer, The Ringmaster, made that easy for me because he actually grew up in Indonesia and speaks Bahasa fluently. Berto Pah, who is an Indonesian Sasando player, also helped in making the song sound authentic.”
WE GOT – “Panahon”
Directed by Shai Advincula, the video counterpart of a pretty straightforward raggaefied love song situates its story in the time of pandemic, where a woman in isolation found unexpected companionship in the unlikeliest of circumstances.
Advincula explained, “Over the past year, our lives have shifted by being stuck at home most of the time. There are a lot of things that we’re missing from our pre-pandemic life, one of which is the affection we get from a companion. But how do we cater to our need for affection in a socially distanced world? The music video shows a bizarre but refreshing take on coping.”
ITCHYWORMS – “The Life I Know”
The track is a piano-backed ballad off the band’s fifth studio album, Waiting For The End To Start. Its music video follows the story of Awit, a toddler who’s beginning to understand her place. Tension arises when an incoming new sibling threatens to take what was once Awit’s own comfort space.
Director of animation Cami Kwan takes pride in documenting how a child starts to lose the world she’s known to navigate a new realm that is both uncomfortable and terrifying. She said, “There is a beauty and awe in embracing a wider world, of seeing beyond yourself, but there is an inherent loss in that as well, and we wanted to explore that sense of melancholy as well as that sense of power and joy.”
TOM MORELLO – Driving To Texas
Co-founder of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave and Prophets of Rage, Tom Morello released a new single off his forthcoming album The Atlas Underground Fire. In partnership with electronic rock duo Phantogram, his latest song’s slow macabre ambience twists his blazing guitar work with the bands he’s been with before and the politics of his most famous collaboration with RATM’s Zack de la Rocha.
Morello described his new project thus: “I’d worked with Josh from Phantogram on my first Atlas Underground album and I was thrilled when he and Sarah reached out about collaborating on this record. This song is creepy as hell –a dark journey, a struggle for a tortured soul. The guitar solo needed to feel like a vengeful angel and on this record. Sarah has one of the most haunting and beautiful voices of anyone singing today, while Josh’s production is stylistically so fresh and eerie.”
ELTON JOHN and DUA LIPA – “Cold Heart” (Remix)
A joyous and blissful dance cut, ‘Cold Heart’ is at once instantly recognizable and yet thoroughly contemporary – a modern dance floor filler based on four of Elton’s classic tracks expertly spliced together by Australian electronic band and producers PNAU.
Elton John said: “The last 18 months have been hard, but being off the road has meant that I’ve actually had time to collaborate with some wonderful artists. And having the opportunity to spend time with Dua, albeit remotely has been incredible. She’s a truly wonderful artist, and the energy she brought to ‘Cold Heart’ just blew my mind.”
PNAU added, “Setting a stage for the two greatest performers in the world today Sir Elton John and Dua Lipa, we knew we had to go in deep, take them into our world, the psychedelic laser black lit club. Where all of us can meet on the dance floor, forget the outside and lose ourselves in the healing waters of music and love eternal.”
PNAU is the multi-platinum-selling electronic act of Nick Littlemore (Empire of the Sun, Vlossom, Teenager), Peter Mayes and Sam Littlemore.